Provincial Court Proceedings, 16/80. 97

liberty to imparle hereunto untill next Prov^ll Court & itt is granted
unto him, the same day is given to the p^lt also
Att which said next Provintiall Court to witt the nineteenth
day of ffebruary in the fifth yeare of the Dominion of the right
Hon^ble Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoqj Doni 1679 canie the said
parties by their Attorneys aforesaid And the said John Richardson
by his said Attorney saith, that he the said William his action
aforesaid against him the said John Richardson ought not to haue,
because he saith, that before the sueing out the originall writt of
this action to witt the twenty third day of March one thousand six
hundred seventy one in Talbot County aforesaid he the said John
Richardson and the said John Parker haveing then & there comuni-
cation betwixt them as well of & concerning the paym^t of the said
debt of foureteene thousand twenty nine pounds of tobacco for
which the said John Richardson stood engaged by the said bill as

Liber W. C.

aforesaid As also concerning several debts & Accompts Which the
said John Parker stood engaged in to him the said John Richardson.
Itt was then & there agreed between them the said parties That
whereas the said John Richardson had delivered to one John Webster
for the use of the said John Parker Eighteene head of hogges, to
witt ten breeding sowes & eight large shoates or young barrowes,
for which the said John Parker was to pay unto the said John
Richardson the sume of foure thousand pounds of tobacco, the
same foure thousand pounds of tobacco should be allowed by dis-
count for part of pay of the said debt of ffourteene thousand twenty
nine pounds of tobacco Also itt was further agreed by the said
parties, that whereas the said John Parker did then by specialty
stand engaged unto the said John Richardson the Sume of fiue
thousand one hundred & fifty pounds of tobacco, that he the said
John Parker should also discount so much tobacco Viz^t five thou-
sand one hundred & fifty pounds of tobacco out of the said debt of
ffourteene thousand twenty nine pounds of tobacco And should
allowe of the same to the said John Richardson as further part of
pay of the said debt of ffourteene thousand twenty nine pounds of
tobacco And also itt was then & there further agreed, that whereas
the said John Parker was indebted unto the said John Richardson
upon accompt for accomodacons att the house & Ordinary of the
said John Richardson the sume of One thousand seven hundred
Seventy one pounds of tobacco the same should also be accepted &
taken by the said John Parker as part of satisfaction of the said
debt of ffourteene thousand twenty nine pounds of tobacco as afore-
said from the said John Richardson And also whereas the said
John Parker had received two bills from the said John Richardson
to receiue the tobacco due thereupon for Richardsons use, upon
one whereof was due to the said Jn^o Richardson from one Richard
Baily the Sume of nine hundred and seven pounds of tobacco And

p. 88